Substitutions for Sales Orders 
Substitutions for Sales Orders
Use
When you assign a sales order to a profit center, the system proposes the profit center of the material in delivering plant as a default. This assignment allows you to structure your profit centers according to a product-oriented or location-oriented point of view, or a combination of these.
If you wish to structure your company from a sales-oriented point of view, you can define substitution rules to assign sales orders to profit centers in a different way.
Note that it is generally difficult to analyze balance sheet items in profit centers if you choose a sales-oriented division of your company into profit centers, since the balances are difficult to assign clearly to individual profit centers.
Features
You can use the following fields from the sales order to determine the profit center:
In cross-company business, goods are delivered and sold by two different company codes. In such cases, you usually will not want to post the sales revenue to the profit center of the material in the delivering plant. Consequently, it is possible to activate substitution rules for posting the billing document revenue to a profit center only in case of cross-company business. In this case the substitution is based on the billing document. Note that here the field Order reason is not available, because it does not exist in the billing document.
Activities
Define an appropriate substitution rule in Customizing for Profit Center Accounting. You can find a complete description of this activity in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Profit Center Accounting, under Assignments to Profit Centers.
For a detailed description of how to create and change substitutions, see the component FI Special Ledgers in the R/3 library, under
Validierung, Substitution und Regeln .Then activate the desired substitution rules for each controlling area. You can do this in the application menu under Environment
® Current settings.You can find a complete description of this activity in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Profit Center Accounting, under Assignments to Profit Centers.
After you have performed the activities described above, the system replaces the default profit center in the sales orders for which it finds a valid substitution.
